EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 12/02/2025/6:20
PM
My
Worship Time Focus: “The Precedent for Judgment”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: 2
Peter 2:4-8
Message of the verses:
“For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into
hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment; and did not
spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with
seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; and if He
condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to
ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly lives thereafter;
and if He rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the sensual conduct of
unprincipled men (for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living
among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless
deeds).”
Here
is what we will be doing this evening in this Spiritual Diary. This is an introduction to these verses, and
MacArthur gives this introduction to it which I will quote, and then we will
see that after this introduction that these verses will be looked at in
different sections. Tonight’s SD will just be composed of the introduction.
“Peter
continues his denouncement of false teachers by referencing three well-known
accounts of divine judgment from the book of Genesis. It my have been tempting for some of Peters’ original
readers to doubt whether or not the false teachers doubt whether or not the false teachers would really ever be
punished. For the moment, they seemed to
be flourishing—circulating their spiritual lies and basking in their
popularity, sensuality, and wealth. So
Peter reminded his readers of biblical history, noting that just as God judged
faithfully in the past, so He will also uphold justice in the present.
“As
the apostle gives an overview of three Old Testament examples, he highlights
the height of God’s wrath (in the case of fallen angels), the breadth of God’s
wrath (in the case of the ancient world at the time of the Flood), and the
depth of God’s wrath (in the case of Sodom and
Gomorrah). In other words, there
are no creatures too lofty, too numerous, or too base to escape divine judgment—His
vengeance will be meted out on all who oppose Him. And, as Peter points out in this passage, the
false teachers of his day were no exception.”
In
tomorrow evening’s SD will begin to look at “The Case of the Fallen Angels”,
Lord willing.”
12/2/2025 6:38 PM
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